The Niagara Falls Air Force Missile Site was a Cold War USAF launch complex for Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missiles. Equipped only IM-99Bs (46 missiles: solid-state, solid-fuel booster), the site had 48 Model IV "coffin" shelters, after an initial design with a secure area of ~ to have 28 shelters (the planned site had additional area for 84 "future shelters"). Launch control for the site's missiles was by central NY's "Hancock Field combined direction-combat center" (CC-01/DC-03) at Syracuse, New York. The Syracuse Air Defense Sector had been designated by CONAD "effective April 1, 1958" as 1 of 4 sectors in the "26th SAGE Division" (cf. Bangor, Boston, & New York Air Defense Sectors). DC-03 was operational on December 1, 1958; and the division was the 1st operational in the SAGE